The LISA device must have stopped working. But how? It must be a blip. She’s come too far to go back to untouchable now. She screams in anguish, allowing the lightning to spread from her fingertips in wild abandon. She looks down at Nate’s burnt corpse. Everything will be fine. Angel. He can help. She’ll fix the device. Yes, she’ll fix the device, and everything will be fine, she thinks. Because a normal life would have been kind of nice.

Elsewhere, at the same time as Gwen and Nate saw the sky explode, a homeless man is outside a movie theatre. He’s preaching about the end of the world. He bothers other people and a woman at the ticket office tells him to quit. He’s scaring people. As the rain pours down, she asks him why he preaches about the end of the world. It’s not going to happen, he’s being crazy, she insists. Then LA went to Hell.

The preacher stops and smiles. He was right. All those people said he was crazy, but he was right. They were all wrong and now they’ll see. He watches as people run away around him, demons coming from everywhere. The girl he was talking to also runs away in fear. He remains there, knowing he was right. Two weeks later he knows she’s not coming back. Everything he was doing was to impress her. As he grabs a sword, he prepares to fight what was coming. It was worth it to him.

GUNN
Three months ago. Charles Gunn wakes in a hotel room. Is that Angel in front of him, he thinks, half asleep. No, but he is healing. He’s been bandaged and taken care of, apart from the fact that he’s lost his vision in his right eye. A man comes into the room. He tells Gunn that it’s all going to be okay. Charles thinks he’s delusional.

Charles tries to catch his breath. This guy is a vampire. But he’s carrying a stake. Why? And then the guy sits and asks Charles… what’s the last thing you remember?

Charles thinks back. The battle had begun. He staggered and as he fell he looked over at Angel, who rushed to his side. Angel told his friend that they were going to get out of this. Gunn said they weren’t. Something caught Angel’s eye. He told Charles to hold on and rushed off. Gunn remembers why: he saw an ogre controlling the dragon. As Angel rushed off, Gunn tried to call him, but he couldn’t be heard over the battle.

Gunn tells the vampire that Angel had a plan. And it worked. Except… he didn’t come back for Charles. Charles remembers the dragon turning, and then someone grabbing him from behind, asking someone if this was the right guy…

Gunn realises that the vamp he’s talking to is the one who grabbed him. He tried to yell for Angel, but it was too late. The vampire’s teeth had sunk into Gunn’s neck.

Gunn gets angry and slams the vampire into the nearest wall. It can’t be true: he’s still human. He cannot be a vampire. Other vampires enter the room and ask their leader if everything is alright. He assures them that Gunn is fine, and that he’ll calm down – he just needs to adjust to being a…

Gunn’s face goes full vampire mode before the vamp can finish his sentence. Charles asks him directly: who told you to grab me? Was it Wolfram & Hart? The vampire shakes his head. They’d been watching. They had been told where to be at the right time. They have an inside line, so to speak.

Gunn lets him go. He wasn’t there because of this vamp. He was in the alley way for Angel. And he was forgotten. And now he’s a vampire. A monster. He shakes it off: he still feels human. He removes his bandages and asks what else has happened. The vamps draw the curtains and show him Los Angeles, deep down in Hell.

Disappointed that he wasn’t told earlier, he grabs his sire and stakes him. Gunn looks at the others, defying them to come at him. He wants to know about their inside help. He knew he was in Hell the moment he woke up.

And Charles Gunn wants out…